Howard Coleman has run the Loughborough (Luger Barugah as Tim Hardin memorably called it) Acoustic Club since the year dot said something quite interesting on fb recently. Howard's Dad was a jazz player gigging well into his eighties.

Anyway - they're a Jewish family - I never realised til I went to his Dad's funeral, and they asked me to wear a hat. its traditional.

Howard was saying he regretted all the years he played blues, now that he was into klezmer music.

i think that's the nature of folk music. We're all on our own individual journeys. We might make use of the maps laid out for part of the way, but ultimately we're the 'folk' in question.